You'd probably want some ways to recover the life you'll be losing to draw cards. Whip of Erebos , Gray Merchant of Asphodel , Exsanguinate spring to mind as well as Blood Artist / Falkenrath Noble . Other than that, there are some sweet mana boosting cards that are optimal for mono black in the for...

Also, Khaospawn, I think your off colour fetches might make you deck illegal... or am I wrong here? Those are fine, it's all about color identity nowadays. A card's color identity consists of the color of the card and any colored mana symbols in the rules text, rules text including words like &quot...

Commander’s Assemble! – Voltron Voltron is a deck archetype that is gaining popularity in the commander format. The main strategy of this archetype involves slamming down your commander and suiting it up to become an incredible killing machine. Since commander decks tend to have access to their gen...

So Wizards released new commander decks some time ago, http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/productarticle.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/commander13/productinfo The new commanders all have some kind of unique mechanic specifically made for the format. You have some that care about mana spent to cast: Jeleva, Nephalia&...

Also note that while stacking your whole deck is quite nice, you don't get the extra mill/spells to cast with Jeleva because you don't pay any mana to cast it. Having a few good creatures with preferably enters the battlefield triggers (see Archaeomancer , Solemn Simulacrum above), you can still sta...

I think you'd first want to decide whether to keep or drop the whole "each player draws stuff" subtheme. It's pretty interesting to work around, but I don't think it is really necessary for Jeleva.You probably want Lightning Greaves or Whispersilk Cloak in there.

I really like this one. The enters the battlefield trigger seems a bit meh (even though your max commander cost will be 4, so it's never too bad), this guy can certainly make deckbuilding and games pretty interesting.

Bloodrush has the colon, that means its an activated ability. I'd say yes, pithing needle blocks it. Correct, pithing needle does not specify what kind of source (e.g. a permanent) the activated ability should come from, so it can prevent the usage of activated abilities (aka bloodrush, as noted ab...